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...Hyman Kublin The Making of the Meiji Constitution, the Oligarchs and the Constitutional Development of Japan, 1868–1891 . By George M. Beckmann . Lawrence, Kansas : University of Kansas Press , 1957 . 158 , Bibliography, Index. Cloth: $3.00; paper: $2.50. Copyright © The Association...

... brilliant best to protect the legal and political heartlands of the imperial system and a traditionally oligarchic and authoritarian form of government against popular encroachments, the former uniformly espoused concepts and institutions that are among the world's most democratic and progressive...

... to power through a military coup and whose vision of “administrative democracy” invested enormous power into the institution of the presidency itself. More recently, it has been deployed to help rewrite Korea's highly contentious development experience in a manner that praises both the state and oligarchic...

... of bureaucratic leaders thus laying the foundation for the oligarchic (genro) structure which now emerged. Decision-making roles were thus allocated on the same extra-bureaucratic criteria as upper civil service roles; 2) rationalization of the bureaucratic role undermined and finally eliminated the genro...

... strains on the national economy, saddled the country with an enormous foreign debt, and loosened the grip of the Meiji oligarchs on politics. But, most important, it buried the anxieties of one generation, and shaped the illusions of the next. In this monograph, a model of clarity and disciplined...

... is an important contribution to our understanding of Japan's modern political development. It is particularly useful for the decade following the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution in 1889. In that period, Japan's oligarchs and political parties were forced to compromise in order to fashion an effective...

... of Japan, Growth and Structural Change 1868–1938 ( Princeton , 1954 ), p. 35 . Cf. the problem of the Tokugawa rulers as described by John W. Hall with the budget problem faced by the Meiji oligarchs. Hall, Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan (Cambridge, Mass., 1955 ), pp. 5 – 6 . Even...

... real equality with the West only by resorting to force, by following the footsteps of the Western imperialist powers in China. Mutsu was eminently qualified to recount the story of the Sino-Japanese War from the perspective of the Meiji oligarchs. As Japan's foreign minister in the Ito cabinet during...

... history between 1868 and 1931. They come up with three highly original conclusions. Wrong are the historians who argue that the oligarchs who ran Japan during the Meiji years acted with strength in the national interest. Rather they acted mostly out of self-interest. "Relentless cheating" (p. 7) on each...

.... Frances M. Rosenbluth is a political scientist. Using rational choice theory, they explore imperial Japanese history between 1868 and 1931. They come up with three highly original conclusions. Wrong are the historians who argue that the oligarchs who ran Japan during the Meiji years acted with strength...

... the country with an enormous foreign debt, and loosened the grip of the Meiji oligarchs on politics. But, most important, it buried the anxieties of one generation, and shaped the illusions of the next. In this monograph, a model of clarity and disciplined organization, Mr. Okamoto examines the domestic...

...Frank O. Miller Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 Crisis Politics in Prewar Japan . By George M. Wilson . Tokyo : Sophia University , 1970 . xiii, 78 pp. Index. 898 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES From this, Okamoto concludes that the success of oligarchic...

... security. National security must be understood broadly, in psychological, political, and economic terms in which military security plays a subordinate role. Richard J. Samuels argues that when the Meiji Oligarchs set out to protect Japan by building Fukoku Kyohei, the Rich Country, Strong Army of his title...

... insight into the Meiji oligarchy as a whole. Early careers of most of the oligarchs ran parallel. Okubo, in particular, was representative of the group of roughly seventeen men on whom the policy-making function devolved in the crucial 1870's when the government initiated so many reforms.1 Like the other...

..., of landed, locally powerful " 'political dynasties' . . . which make Filipino politics so spectacularly different from those of any other country in Southeast Asia" (pp. 12 13). Despite ample lands and local authority, these oligarchs lacked the "monarchical residues which, suitably transformed, underpinned...

... to Plates. $8.75. BOOK REVIEWS 235 his assumption that an unstable Japan which functioned smoothly only during the brief periods of uneasy coalition between the military and civilian oligarchs, could have exercised a "stabilizing influence" on the Asian mainland. The push into Manchuria is justified...

... smoothly only during the brief periods of uneasy coalition between the military and civilian oligarchs, could have exercised a "stabilizing influence" on the Asian mainland. The push into Manchuria is justified by advancing old-fashioned economic interest as an argument, the advance into Inner Mongolia...

... which it pursues its perennial strategic interests in the South China Sea. As Capozzola points out, however, the effects have not always been positive. Oligarchic elites and authoritarian chief executives alike have acted as gatekeepers to, and extracted percentages from, overseas labor. Ferdinand...

... and closely argued volume does not contest that this was a matter of utmost concern among Meiji oligarchs, but places the clause within the larger context of attempts to understand and tame the alien category of “religion,” perceived as their “greatest problem” in efforts to consolidate and legitimize rule...

... N O . Translated by J . A. A. S T O C K W I N . London and New York: Routledge, 1992. xv, 250 pp. $55.00. This book is a detailed description of the ideological conflicts and political maneuvers of Japan's leading oligarchs, bureaucrats, and party politicians during Japan's first decade under...